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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AND COLUMBUS GAZETTE. Two Dollars fifty Cents in Advance Or, Three Dollars at the end of the year TERMS IVew Series.. ..IVo. 40, Vol. III. COLUMBUS, SATURDAY JflJiRCU 29, 1834. Whole Number, 1334. JOURNAL & OAZKTTE. From the New York Courlqr and Enquirer. - No. XLI. Washington, D. C, M.trch 8tli, 1834. On Tuesday the Committeo on Ways and Means made their report on ths subject of the Bank. Mr Polk, their Chairman, moved to postpone their consideration, until Wednesday next. The friends of the flank wished it referred to a Committee o( the Whole, which is the usual course. This was overruled. And why was it overruled? I will answer the question. Because, it is the intention of a drilltd corpt to cut short the debate. If the subject is referred to a Committeo of thn Whole, the previous question cannot be demanded in that committee, and the debute on the report must, therefore, be continued, until it shall be fully examined, in all its bearings. The friends of the report shrink from this discussion. They are unwilling that the arguments for and against it, should be sent forth to the peoplo. They wish to shelter themselves under "a gag law." Hut there is another reason. Amendments will be offered to the report of the majority. These amendments, it is apprehended, certain members will hesitate about voting against: and it is doubtful whether an "organization, according to the New York school," would be found sufficiently powerful to hold them in-"party shackles, so completely, as to obtain their votes against some of them. What, then, is to 1)0 done? There is no means loft, by which .these votes can bo secured to the party, tut one, and that is, to avoid the vote on the proposed amendments, llow is this to be accompliaheo? It is to be accomplished by ordering the previous question. Because, if that is ordered, it stops all debate, prevents any amendments being voted for, and presents to the Houso the simple question Shall the report bo adopted? Such, then, is the plan by which it is contemplated to carry Mr Polk's report through the House. Will it succeed? 1 consider that doubtful, It will be attempted. But there are some members, opposed to the Bank, who will refuse to sustain a Proposition, having for its object the sup pression of a free and full investigation of a subject, so vitally altecting the best interests of every citizen. But, why is it that the friends f the administration fear discussion? Why is it, that they struggle by night and by day, to apply h'"gag law," to their opponents? Is ihcro a member of this great community, so ignorant as not to understand the obieci? Does not every thinking man perceive, that it is the fear of exposure!1 Why not let the arguments, on Dotn sides, in tbeir greatest extent, be presented to the nation? Dare thoy not rely upon the soundness of the reasons which they assign for persisting in a remorseless and unrelenting warfare against tho prosperity of the country? Is it not evident that they wish, with an unhallowed hand and in the silence of despotism, to sacrifice a confiding, and unoffending people? Will that people continue to support those who have ignorantly, or wickedly, Diigwou tne fairest prospects that ever shone upon our land? Another effort will probably be made, to have the subject referred to a Committee of the Whole. You will have seen, by a reference to the proceedings ot the Senate, that various resolutions have boon laid on the la ble, calling upon tho Post Master General for information respecting his department. Mr Grundy, who is a member of tho Post Office committeo. frequently, with great apparent candor, calls to the attention of the senate, some peccaumo in tne aepari-mont, for the purpose of diverting their attention from matters of greater importance But as the game is understood, the labor is lost. A thorough investigation will be had. before the session terminates. Not withstanding all that has been said, the Post Office difficulties are not diminished. A check of theirs, for ten tlioutnnd dollars, on one of the doposit Banks, in your city, was returned here, a few days sinco, for non-payment, The President, last week, informed a friend that after the adjournment of Con gress, he proposod to tako a trip to the South, and put matters right in that quar ter. Ha contemolates. it is said, visiting Virginia and South Carolina. I do not nretend to the cilt of prophesy, and yet I will venture to predict, he does not make the journey. I should have thought that his Katttrn (our. last summer, for the pur- poso of putting "ronMers right," would have cured him ot any disposition to perurin similar tour, for a similar purpose. Tub Spy in Washimoton, XLII. Wasiiixutok.D. C. March 12, 1S.U In my lottor of tho Will lilt. I staled, that When the rejection of the Hank Directors, by the Senate, was announced to the Pro aident. "he became infuriated, and threat ened to send that body a message." I recur to it now, because tho remark, at tne nine, scorned to pass unheeded as tho idle wind The menace was considered so improbable and so ridiculous, tnal a low only ociiovcu it had ever been mado. That menace has boon carried into effect. Yesterday, the President transmitted to the senate, a written message, accompanied bv a renomination of tho United Statoa' Bank Directors, that wero rejocted about two weeks since. The message gave rise to some warm and animated speeches. 1 have raaann to believe, that a decided ma jority of the Senate feol that this act of the Executive is new evidonco of a fixed determination, in that department, to grasp at all powor. In its style and manner, it is hirrhly indecorous towards tho Senate, as a co-ordinato branch of the government. It scarcely pretends to treat them with cour tesy or respect. It entors into an elabor ate defence of the right of the Prosidont to call upon the government Directors, for such information, as to the transactions of the Dank, as he may think proper to require. It contends that it is the duty of these Directors to furnish such inhumation, when demanded by the Executive. And tln avers, that the individual who nm renom- inatod have boon wrongfully rejected, and requires their confirmation, under the alar- miiis- penalty, that ho will not nominalo any othor persons for their station. I threatens an appeal to the people. In short the whole document is a miserable election peering hand bill, mado up of slirods and ' patches, now vuuipod, which have bcu published and republished a dozen times in the hireling presses of power. This is another attempt to overawe the Senate. It will be met, however, you may rest assured, in a firm and dignified manner, by that honorable body. . The message, with the nominations, were laid on the tabic, to bo token up at a leisure hour. What course will be pursued is not yet known, as the Senate was thinly attended, when the subject was before them, and they havo not since met on Executive business. One thin? is certain they will be again rejected, and by the same majority, if not larger, it is probable that the senate, in asserting their right of reject ion, will not only express their opinion of the conduct of the President, in thus uncnurteously assailing them, and attomptingto wrest from them their constitutional powers, but that they will ulso allude, in strong terms, to the fligront violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution, in withholding the nomination, for months, after the Senate was in session, of perrons discharging the duties of important offices, such as the Secretary of (ho Treasury. I will now recall to your notice another circumstance, alluded to in a former letter. On the fJlh of February I sny "What would you think, if I was to inform you, that tho Kitchen Cabinet have a scheme for shortening the session! You will guess whero it originated, when I state tho project. By the Constitution the President may prornguo Congress, when the two Houses connot agree on the day of adjourn ment. 1 hey will get tho House to fix a day for adjournment; and if the Senate isagrees, Gen. Jackson will excrciso his ingly prerogative of prorogation. Such is the project. The tools of power may deny this statement, but it is true." A few days since the President informed one of iiis lloston friends that he intended to prorogue Congress until February, as he iheil to visit too Hermitage, and mnke a mr South. In tho Semite, yesterday, .Mr Webster, evidently alluding to this Exe cutive plan for adjournment, said, "Nor will we put it in the power ot others to cause us to vacate our seats." And to day, Mr John O.. Adams, in debate, mentioned the subject of prorogation, as "whispers both in and out of the Houso." These references to former letters are made for the purpose of remarking, that I never give such statements, or even hints, without the most substantial reasons for so doing: I do not trouble you with tho idlo gossip of the day. In announcing the death ot Governor llreitlutt of Kentucky, who was a decided friend of tho administration, and an estima-bio man, you havo omitted to notice the fact, that Lieutenant Governor Morohead is a National Republican, and now becomes Governor of the Stato, for the remainder of is term. lie was elected for four years, in the month of September, 1832. The Executive department of this State is, therefore, now in the hands of the opposition to the advocates of usurped power. The Committeo on I'.lections, to whom was referred the case of Mr Letcher and Mr Moore, have not yet reported. There seems to bo an unpardonable degree of procrastination. Threo months have elapsed, and no roport has been presented. This subjoct will produce a most vehement end utter debate. 1 he lnends ol Air itioore peak with entire confidence that the com mittee will report in his favor. Connec ted with this confidont mode of expression, there are some circumstances which have produced inquiry and examination. Let it be borne in mind that the committee are acting; under tho solemnity of an oath; and yet it is said, that a certain gentleman, who. at present, shall be nameless, but who is bettor known in your State, than in Ken; tucky, has msde some strong expressions on tho pending quostion, inuicauvo oi a disposition to prejudge the case. These expressions, if it shall bo found necessary, will be established betore the House, wnen the report shall be presented. Whatever course it mav take in tne com mitloo, I do not believe that it can be made, in tho House, a party question, inucou, I vet hope, that the committeo will be go verned by other consideration, auu mat they will make a manly and Honorable report. But, if it should be otherwise, tho debate will bo of a character (he most acrimonious, and probably tho most personal, that has occurred during the session. On that Question I think I shall behold, with out disgust, "the arrogant and magnificent air with which many southern politicians will claim an exemption from the shackles of party;" and with a noble bearing, indig nantly spurn tne proparoa organization oc cording to the New York School. THR SI'Y IX WASIIIXUTON. No. XLIII. Washinotow. D. C. March I I. 1831. So much time in the Senato is consumed ami vorv nroncrlv consumed, in tho present ation of memorials from tho people, on the subiect of the difficulties of tho country, that . . I . . ...Ml I it is Uillicuit to say wnai business win uo transacted in that body, on any given day. Mr Webster gave notice that lie wouiu.on Monday, as Chairman of the Financo committeo, present a bill for the renewal of tho charter of tho United States' Bank. Tho pressure of othor business may, and I think will, prevent its being introduced belbro Tuesday or Wednesday. It is said, that Mr Webster's plan is to renew tho chartor of the prosont Bank, for six years from .March, 1830. That tho stockholders pay such sum for the ronowal as may be deemed right and reasonable. mat tne uaiix collect ana uisuursu u nublic revenue as heretofore. That the government rosorvo the right, aftor March 119. to incorporate a now Dank, to go into operation at such time as Congoss may de signate; and that from and allur lo.JU, the present Honk shall not be allowed to issue, or circnlato any paper whatsoever, of a less denomination than twenty dollars. 1 hese, understand, are the principal teatures ot the bill, II will, probably, undergo modin cations and amendments in the Senate. I wish I could say, that 1 entertain hopes of its success in tho House, in any form; but An not. Early in the session, I expressed an opin ion, notwithstanding all the rumors to the contrary, that -Air nievcnson wouiu not ao dicatotho apeakor s cimruunug mo win tcr. Well, "tho winter is over uud cone,' and Mr Hlovonsnn is yet here, and likoly to remain hero lor soino months. It is evident however, that ho docs not calculat) ogai to bo a candidate for that station; and it probable that he expects, ultimately, to To ceive tho appointment so lung suspended.' As evidence that he does not look for votes, in the House, I could mention several incidents. Two will suffice. Some days ago, one pf his political friends (Mr Hannegau of Indiana,) offered an a-mendment to a question pending. The Speaker, not understanding the precise bearing of the amendment, or the precise place it was to be inserted, returned it, with the remark, that "it was neither sense nor grammar." On another recent occasion, he treated Mr Bell of Tennessee, in such a manner as to excite his ire, in a violent degree. Mr Bell felt the injury very sensibly; but, it is said, the Speaker, subsequently, in a private conversation, explained the matter. I refer to these, among other incidents, which occur almost daily on the floor of the House, as evidence that Mr Stevenson does not expect to remain in Congress. He either expects an appointment, or his district presents a forbidding aspect. Perhaps both. The Spy in Washington. From (lie New Vork American. TO THE PF.orLE OF THE DNITEP STATES. Letter 6. Fellow Citizens: In my last letter, I reached the period in my narrative, when the President's agent returned from his mission to the State Hanks, and when his report was placed in tho President's hands. I might, if at all needful to my defence, here notice various incidents, that occurred between the ')d of July, and the 9th of oepiemoor. there was but ono, howevor, which I feel myself at liberty to notice at present, and that liberty I tnko, inconsequence of the publication of an insidious article in the olliciol papor of the'7th of February last, founded upon a passage in my letter to Governor Tazewell. In that letter I mentioned my previous nwillingness to civo a full exposition of the incidents of my brief official career; but added that I would so far dopart from the rule of silence, as to state tho true nature of the service which I had been required to perforin, especially as tho official reasons given for its execution did not afford such an explanation. That the true nature of the service was not to substitute one fiscal agent for another, but to pervert a power, reserved by law for tho public protection, into a weapon to punish the legitimate fiscal agent, in such a time, and in such a manner as to evade legislative and judicial action. Hie official paper of the 7th ult., per- ceivmg the position in which the President was thus placed, rolative to the other two co-ordinato branches of tho government, put loan a paper to mislead tho public mind, and to exctiso the President for not having awaited tho action of Congress. I propuso in tho present letter to examine this publication. My explanation to Governor Tazewell s described in tho official publication refer red to, as "Mr Duano's second thoughts," by which it is meant, I presumo, that I had not belbro thought of what I hadthen-stated. But it is barely necessary to read my letter to the President of the 10th of July, in order to perceive, that I then gave to him the very "thoughts," which in January following I very briefly expressed to Gov. I ozeweil. It is in the next place said, that my ex planation to Governor Tazewell is a "revelation;" and this is correct, if tho assertion means that it is the first public exposition of what had not been before stated. In December last, 1 declined to reveal somo incidents, which I havo now men tioncd; and I now forbear to state par ticulars which I may hereafter refer to; but my correspondence with the President snows that 1 might have long sinro disclosed what is now related. I declined, however, until comnollod to do so in self delence. It is further said, that I have added e now reason, for refusing to remove the do- posits, to those given in my letter to the President, of the iiut of September last; but it will appear, on an examination of that letter, that this is a fallacy, It is true, I did not say in my letter to tho President, "Sir You require mo to remove the doposits in order to forestall tho action of Congress;" the oocasion did not call for that modo of expression, and courtesy for- bado it. lint 1 stated the Tact in a different way; I refused to remove the deposits, bo- cause Congress and the Judiciary ought to be hrst resorted to, and both were shunned. 1 lie official paper then insinuates, that my explanation to Governor Tazewell was intended to operate on tho pride of power in Congress. That it ought so to operate is true, but that it was designed fur that end is unfounded. My object in showing what was tho trno nature of tho sorvice required of mo was, to prove that I could not cxeculo it without detriment to the public, and reproach to myself, and that my course was not unworthy of the approbation of tho citizens of Norfolk. 'We have understood," says the official paper, "Ih it Mr Duane was willing to fix a day alter tho mooting ot Uongress, on which ho would remove the deposits, in case Congress did not act upon the subject. And wo know that some of thoso in lavor of the removal, and among others the agent employed in making preparation for tho transler, wero persuaded that Mr Duane was sincere and honest in making this proposition, and entered into his views; but tho President saw that it was utterly inconsistent with tho principles which Mr Duane had previously laid down in writing as those which would direct his conduct, aim lie consiuoreu tne proposition as a mere finosso for the benotit of the Bank. and troatod it accordingly." 1 shall not here stop to comment upon the President's secret sentiments respect ing me, which scorn to have been so well known to "the agent" and "others," wri ters for his official paper, but will show what was my proposition When it was known early in September that I persisted in my relusal to remove the deposits, and even hesitatod whether my duty to the country did not forbid surrender of tho post in my care; some of the members ol the Cabinet appeared to doairo that a middle course might bo pur sued. I was asked whether 1 would fix upon a tiny, on which 1 would remove the doposits, alter tho mooting of Uungress, in cose Hint body Bhnuld not acton tho sub ject. Whether this inquiry was or was not made with a view to an explanation with tho President, I do not knowt but when I was rcquotted tostatp my senti ments in writing, I did so in a letter. dated September 8th, of which the follow ing is an extract: "My conviction has been and is, that no cauie for a change of the depository does exiit, such as warrants the exercise of the power conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury; that, unlit adequate came to change ihalt arise, it will be his duly to deposit as at present, unless Congress Bhall otherwise direct. So that I can give no assurance but these; I will change the depository as soon as Congress shall direct me to do so, or as soon as such cause shall ariso as will, in my judgment, justify the act; but, if Congress shall not sanction the removal of the deposits (that is, do so previous to removal) I am not at liberty to say, that I will act at a given lime; tor I do not know that at that time there will be any more reasons than there is now for a change. 1 Ins is the result of reflection. I will respectfully and without bias listen to what may be said hereafter; but I have noiex-pcctiition of varying in the least from my present position. I am willing and ready, and anxious to go home, as soon as the f resident shall say such is Ins prcteronco, rather than do what I should ever after re gret and condemn." llius it appears, 1 rclusod to fix a day, consented to remove the deposits in case Congress dosired it, and slated my readi ness to retire ss soon as the 1'rcsidont should even express his preference for that course. Hero 1 might rest my defence, but consider it a duty to proceed. In my letter of the 10th of July, I said, that, to justify my own act in removing the deposits, I must rely on my own reasons, and not on those of others; obviously alluding to the offer made to mo by the President of his reasons, in case I should not consider my own sufficient. The official paper, however, says, 1 rnluscd to act even upon reasons "legislative," or "executive." l Ins is not only contradicted by tho pro position above quoted, but by the whole course of my written and oral discussion with the i'rcsident; it is also controverted by what I stated to the legal adviser of the President, my sucoessor in office, at an interview had with him by the desire of the President himself, And to show more precisely the nature of my srgumenl, I quote the following passage from a paper drawn up on the 10th of July, for the pur pose ot meeting the Presidents statements:"You (the President) aro of opinion there is a radical error in my view of that part of tho subject discussed, which relates to a reference of the question of the deposits to the next Longrcas. In order to demon strate my supposed error, you ask, whether the deposits can ba removed, except by tne Secretary of the Treosuryl To which there can bo no other reply than, that the Secretary alone can remove them. You, then, however, inquire whether Congress can rnako any provision for a deposit ot the public money before its removal! To which you reply it cannot, and that a removal, therefore, must bo the first step. In this, howevor, I cannot concur; on the contrary, 1 am satisfied that Congress may control the whole matter. Your conclusions are, that the existing grounds for removing the deposits are sutliciont, and that, so far, Congress have nothing to do with tho question; that it would bo throwing on them a responsibility not belonging to them, but to another branch of the Government; that when a change shall be mado, it will be timo onoiiLrh to submit it to the revision of Congress; but that until the change be mado they cannot act. But, sir, I cannot concur in this view of tho subject; tho positions, I humbly conceive, are untena ble. The Bank oharter reserves to Con gross the right to decide after removal, whether the removal was proper or not. So that I respecllully contend that Con gress havo a right to decide whether a re moval should or should not be mado at a future day, for they are to judge of the reasons. Nor do I admit that tho respon sibility restB upon the Exoculive branch of the Government; on thn contrary, you grant, in your letter of the 2!)th of June, that the secretary ol the 1 reasury lias by law a discretion, which he may use indepen dent ly. Independently of whoml Surely of evory authority, but that of the law, and of Congress, to whom his conduct is to be submitted, 1 may, indeed, be in error; but it would appear to ino to be at least singular, that tho Secretary of the Treasury should be clothed with a power which his superiors could not exercise, guide, or control without his previous ac tion; thai II tlicy should think tho public funds in danger, they could not protect tho i', if ho thought otherwise. According to my impressions, tho power of Congress must bo wholly unsuited to its objects, it it m-iy not bo exercised to instruct its agont to du, or how to do, or not to do, tho act or winch, it dono, he is obligod to give them his reasons. So that in tho absence of all necessity, I desire to submit tho question of tho removal of tho deposits, at lint to thoso who are to decide upon it at Intl. Whether 1 was correct or not, those wero tho positions which I maintained in discussion with the President, and the then Attorney General, as they must both re-mcnibor. So that it is wholly fallacious toprelond, either that I declined to be governed by the will of Congress, or that the Prosidont had tho least inclination to await their action. On tho contrary, if the official paper is to be credited, the Pro sidont determined to break down the Bank ore he had left Tennessee, and of courso long boloro any ol these occurrences took olaco, upon which he rested the propriety of removing the deposits. And I will here remark, that this hostility could not havo been founded on constitutional scruplos fur, when 1 introduced into the instruotions for his agent, a declaration thai the President was opposed to any National Bank, he truck this out, and substituted a declara tion, that he was only opposed to an insti tution organized upon the principles of the existing U ink, a declaration meaning any thing or nothing. Notwithstanding the facts which I have stated in thn letter, the official paper do dares, that the President refused to listen to any application lor dolay, because he considered my effort "a more linesso," "a stratagem," "lor the beneht ot the Hank' of the United Stalos. I ask you, fellow citizens, to mark this and comparo it with prior declarations of the samo papor. Behold tho character given of your Chief Magistralo by his official organl Some time ago, it assortod that the President had been uniformly kind to me; and 1 admit that his professions were occasionally very ardent, so much so thai I thought them sincere; I also admit, that he offered the mission to llussin. But observe what his official paper now confesses. It declares that the President was secretly defaming me, at the time he was publicly professing the utmost friendship to myself. He was assailing the reputation of a member of his own Cabinet, although he had not a solitary fact to give color even for suspicion. I Ins charge ot duplicity is not made by mo. It is the official paper which places tho President in this odious position. I do not determine upon the question, whether I am to believe what the President said to me, or what his official paper now assorts to tho public. W. J. DUANE. March 5, 1P31. From the National Intelligencer. OUGIIT TO BREAK." We are glad to see the gallant bearing of many of the Representatives of the people and of the Stales. We are glad that they do not quail before the power of the Executive, but boldly stand up and oppose that power when it is unjustly exerted either by words or actions. Now is the timo to resiet oppression. A year hence may bo too late. Tho reason for these sentiments will be seen upon reading the following eloquent remarks, made by .Mr. Clayton, of Delaware, in the Senate on Tuesday. We all remember that more than twenty gentlemen, of the first respectability in that city, which is the proudest ornament of Pennsylvania, alter bearing to Congress the memorial cf in ire than ten thousand of its citizens, praying thai the public deposits might be restored to the United States, waited on the President, for the purpose oi explaining me grievances ot their constituents; and that they have published to the world the result of their interview, in a detailed report made to the freemen of that city on the ;id inst. They state in that report, sir, that, "at their interview with the President, he admitted that con siderable distress had followed the action of the Government, in relation to the deposits. He had never doubted that Broken and Stock Speculator), and ALL wuo were 001110 BUSINESS UPON BORROWED CAPITAL, would suffer severely under the effects of the measure; snd that all such people OUGHT TO BREAK!" Henceforth, sir, let all those who, on this fl or or elsewhere, have doniod the existence of any pressure on the country, or who, confessing its existence, have assigned the wrong cause for it, to proteel the miserable purposes of party, learn, that they have mistaken thoireue; that the object of their idolatry himself disclaims their defence, denounces their sub terfuge, boldly avows that he foresaw all the consequences of this act, and that the very object of it was, that "all who were doing business upon borrowed capital" should be tuliioi). They "ounht to broU," says ne. lie never doubted that they would suffer snd suffer severely. He felt no sympa thy lor any out those, who, rolling in wealth, are tho "cankers of a oalm world and a long J IT i . peace, uoing notning; or mose wno, placed by tortune soove the disasters ol the times, aro doing buisness on their own capital. Mr, in my opinion, a more aristocratic sentiment never disgraced any branch of this liovornmont. Who are all those who are doing business on a borrowed capital? I'he Executive denunciation includes three- fourths of all the laboring men in tho nation; the mechanics, the tenantry, the manufacturers, and all but the office-holders, and that portion of society wich, if there be such a thing as an aristocracy of wealth in this country, csn be classed most properly under that designation. As ono of those who, like most of my associates, began life on a borrowed capital, and who are nqt now, and never will be, ashamed to acknowledge it, 1 avail myself of this, tho earliest possi ble opportunity which has otterod since I read this report, to express in mv place, and in the face of tho whole country, my utter abhorrence of the sentiment which the President has so unblushingly avowed. The Chief Magistrate has ventured to clsss the whole mass of the real workingmen of the nation with tho stock-jobbers ot the times, snd to express his satisfaction at the distresses he has caused them. Who is that membor of this body that shall dare to stand forth and detend this sentiment no man here doubts that it is truly reported. If thero be any such as will defend this sen timont, or deny that it was uttered, lot us hear him. It is lime tho people understood tho true issue they aro about to try. It is time, sir, that an opportunity should ba fairly given to the poor and tho middle classes of men, in this nation, to prove tq the world whether they lack gall to mike oppression bitter! Whether thoy merit the taunts of an oppressor, who has dared to loll them they ought to break! If not issue shall be fairly understood, I havo no foars for the result of the trial which such jurors shall decide. From the Nnilunnl G.-ixeite. UNITED STA TVS' BANK. Let impartial and close attention be given to the lollowing official document. It re futes volumes of party-declamation, and will serve to dissipate party projudice. The country may ba surprised, after all that we have beard of the ruinous curtailments of the Uink, to learn how small comparatively has been the roduction how enormous the Avnirireralinns of malice! Bank of the United Slate, March 5th, 1834. At a meeting of the Hoard of Directors held this day, Mr Eyre, from tho Commitioe on the Oliices, presented the lollowing report, which was read: KEI'OR T. The Committee, on the OrTi ces having now ascertained, by an experience of several months, the progress of the reductions in the business of the Bank ordered by the Board on the 8lh of October last, avail themselves of the monthly returns of the Bank and all itt offices, made up for trie month of March, to present a statement of those reductions. The dosign of the Board in directing them was to protect the institution, and to provide the moans of paying the Deposits of l ho Government, so as to press with as little injury as possible on tho community. How fur that purpose nasDccn accomplish ed, will bo seen from tho following detail ml atateniont of tho amount of the loans. deposits, specie and circulation of the Uink, from the 1st of October, 1833, to the 1st of aiirch, leoi. 1833. nlieounti Donmtle Bllle Total Oct. 1, 42 226 275 42 17.867 ,'JH 51 60,094,202 93 Nov. 1, 41.062.813 94 16,147.790 44 57.210,604 38 U'C 1, 38,780,507 49 15,672 537 18 54.453,104 67 1831. ., Jan. 1, 38,009,069 46 16.302 392 24 54.9ll.46t 70 ren. 1, 37,544 ijl Si 17.298,720 Hi 54.84i.73 64 Mar. 1, 37,381,131 86 18,786,698 00 56,167,829 86 1833. Plllillr. Denorlu Prime D'lXMlH Tolnl Oct. 1, 9,868,435 53 8.008,062 78 17,877.298 36 Nov. 1, Dee. 1, 8,2.!2.311 18 7.285 041 88 15517,353 06 5,162,260 63 6,827,173 10 1 1,989 433 73 1834. Jan. 1, 4,230.509 63 3.666 .hill 72 2,604.233 62 6,734 866 06 10.965.375 69 6,71531260 9.781.87434 7,343,129 92 9,947 363 52 Pet). 1, Mnr. 1, 1833. Specie 1 0,00:1,44 1 51 Circulation I9.ia8,i8fj nr 18 518,0410 57 18 650,912 90 Oct. I, Nov, 1, 10 342,160 4G Dec, 1, 9,S18,5'.9 25 1834. Js n. 1 , 1 0,031 ,237 72 1 9,508 379 90 Feb. 1, 10,523 385 69 19,200,472 90 Mor. 1, 10,385,439 15 18,5211,189 00 From this statement it will be perceived that from the 1st of October to the 1st of March, the total reduction in the line of local discounts wss 4,845,143 56 While thore has been an in-' crease in tho Domestic Bills of 918.770 49 Making the total reduction of loans 392G 373 07 During the some period the reduction of the Public Depos its was 7,201,201 90 And of the Private Deposits, 005,732 86 Making a total reduction of deposits of 7.929.934 82 During the same time, the specie of the Dank has dimin ished 278.002 3G Ann ine circulation ot tho Bank, 005 009 57 The comparison of the two periods will be more obvious from the following tabu lar statement: 1833. Loans Deposits Oct. 1, 00,001,202 03 17.877.208 30 1334. Mar. 1, 50,167,829 86 0.947,363 54 7,929,934 82 Specie 10,G63,441 51 3,920,373 07 Circulation 19,128,189 57 1833. Oct 1, 1834. Mar. 1, 18,523,189 00 10,385,439 15 005,000 57 278,01? 3G Tho soneral result of the operations of the Uann during the last bye months bar been 1st. That the reduction of the loans has not been, by upwards of four millions of dollars, as great ao the reduction of the De posits: and 2d. That the withdrawal of nearly eight millions of dollars of those funds on which the Bank had based its accommodations to the community, has not yet been followed by a reduction of accommodation equal to ono halt tho amount ol lunus thus withdrawn.3d. That from ths 1st of January to the 1st of March, the increaso itt the line of domestic bills smounted to nearly two millions and a nail ol dollars. 4th. That during the samo poriod there has been an actual increase in the total loans of the Bank, of 1,250,368 dollars 16 cents. The Committee cannot renret the small- ncss of this reduction durine tho last five months, nor even the actual increaso of its loans sinco the 1st of January; because both have arisen from the strong desire of the U mi It to give evory rebel to the commumtv consistent with its own safely. IS it thev cannot forbear to express their deliberate conviction that these reductions are much less than are required for its security during the present unsettled state of the currencvi and that it has now become the duty of tho Dank, gently but steadily, to diminish the amount ot the claims upon it by continu ing to lessen Its ousiness. Whereupon, on motion of Mr Nowkirk. ina ioi owing resolution was unanimously adopted: lieiolvcd. That as much misapprehension appears to exist throughout the country in regard to the reduction ol the loans ot the Bank since the removal of the Government Deposits, the loregoing Report be publish ed for general information. bxtract Irom tho minutes, S. JAUDON, CrwrtiVr. Forwarding and Commission Business, at Portsmouth, Ohio. f BV1E Subscriber would respectfully inform S. his friomli itnil the pnhlio generally, that he tuts eitnbliihod huusell lit the above place, fur the purpose of Irnnsscting the roRWAHDINO it .11) COMMISSION BUSINESS. Hnving hint several voiirs experience in a Homo doing nil I'Veunve business, he flutters liiinst'll Unit Its is oumputent to too biiuueif, and intending to give it his whole Hlti nlion, cinu.'t fitil of givins rin rat sulisfuotioil. Piirtioulnr Mtentuin will he given to nc-ceivikq nnd rortw aiipinq proper!), and no iinneceisury delay will be perinitlcil. He is Ant for tho 'Ohio, Tiiov mid K.niE, Line' sit the Ohio Canal, ami the 'Tuuy ami Erik1 nnd 'Mkhciia.mts' Link, on the New York Canals. Those being itaily Linei, will enable him to transport property with dispatoh and nt ipccilic prices. lis nlso has the oantrol of a number of Omul Boats, that he can direct to any desi red plnoo, to reoeive and delivpr freight. Liberal advances niado on property consigned to him for sale. - CJ,J.I.KKT. Feb. tJJ IUJ4 -10 tf lUfrrenccs can ba made to the following persons : Hours llarr Uampticii, . .... I). Adams ti Co., 'l"', Rogers, Murlin lit o. Virclewle Sherwood 4f Gregory, Coumiu B. Comitock it Co., J '"' Kaufman, & Foster, Lanettttr George Baker It Co., AVinsrk A. Buckingham & Co., Putnam u. u. wiison, tqruntui G. P. Griffith ft Co., 7Voy 8. Thonipinn Si Co., ) Towniend, Coit & Co., Huffalo Darker k Hold, Hidings, Buldwin, Tense, At Co. Cere- land O. A. M. D.im uin, PorltmouTi J .Moh l.awrenao& Co. ) M'ClellanAt Yorke, Cincinnd' K. J. Langhoro, Naynitlt Stoves: Stoves! Stoves!? rBlHE subscribers would reipectfully in-JL form their friends and the publio, (hat they have now on hand and are conitnnlly receiving Stoves of every description, suitable for this market. Among which nre, 7 and 10 Piute, of five different sizes franklin's, with and without doors, of different sizes and pntterni -Box and Sheet Iron Stoves likewise, COO KIN G ST 0ES, of a variety of patterns and of tho latest improvements, which are warranted equal to any to be found in the United Slates. They till continue to manufacture every description of Copper, Tin, &. Sheet Iron ' WARES. Their stock being large and prices much res duced, they feel a confidence inlaying they will oorcpete with any establishment west of the mountains. Country produce in ge? ncrnl tuken in exchange. W. A. GILL t Co, Columbus, Nov. 4, 1(133. 10 6m 100 Dollars Steward! n ANA WAY from Iheiubicriber, in Kanawha county, Vu., about the first of August ldit,a negro boy eighteen years old; mall of his Bget calls himself JOHN TE-CUMSEII. Said boy is a mulatto; has a scar over one eye; of a thin visage; a dish nose; and has a considerable knot on one ofhisunkles, on the inside; and in oonver. ittion is given to bonsting, and is quite pecul-inr in his phraseology. Sinoe his escape he has been in Marietta, Ohio, where he was taken, but again made his escape, lie has sines been heard of between Guynndotte and Chtllioothe; and is probably making for the Lakes. The above reward will be given to any person who mny secure the said runaway in any jail in Ohio, so that I get him again. ROBERT BLAINE, Feb. 1st 1834 3 1 3m The Editors of the Scioto Gniette and Gal-lipolis Journal, will publish the above two months, and charge the same to the Kanawha Banner. Flour, 1QQ BBLSbesl family FLOUR, for BURR k GREGORY. Jan. !9 28 TARIFF, rgl 1119 Spendid Horse, the joint properly o I, Wm. R. Johnion, of Va., A. Trimble, and I). M' Arthur, of Ohio, has been removed to Hillsborough, Highland county; whore he will stand the approaching season, in ears of his former keeper, GEO. ADAMS. Ilill.horoi.jh, March 3, 18.14 37 Fresh Uardcu Seeds, aROM S. C. Farkhunt's establishment, Cincinnati, and from the Shakers1 Union Village, Ohio. Also, a fine assortment of t lower and Medical Unrilcn bcedl. Reoeived and for sale by SUMNER CLARK. Maroh 19 39 4w For Rent. A Commodious, wall finished Dwelling Houso, onnsisting of twelve rooms, for rent. Posicssiun given 1st of Anril. It is one of the eight buildings on Town street, called Commercial Row. J. BUTTLES, March IT :i9 3w Notice. '1HE PARTNERSHIP of Wm. A. Platl, JL and H. 8. Sprague, under the name of WM, A. PLATT it Co. is this dnv dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to said firm, will make imvmcnt to Wm. A. Piatt, and all persons hnving claims against the oonoern will o II upon him for payment. An immediate settlement of all accounts is required. Wffl. A. I LdA T T H. S, SPRAGUE, March 19,11134. N. B. The business will ba continued as heretofore hy Wm. A. Platt. 39 3w Hook Rindery, rflHESTKR MATTOON, having purchas-J ed the interest of Thomas Johnson, in the Buok Bindery formerly carried on over his well known Book Store, nearly opposite the State House on High Street; hus removed to the building recently occupied by Luman Bnker on State Street, fytwo doors below the Market House) where ho is prepared to oarry on the buiiness iu all its branches. Having, while connected with Mr Johnson, had the binding of raott of ths blank books heretofore used iu the County Offices in this purt ol tho Stnle, he hopes that ho will continue to receive calls in that line, and he pledges himself that ail orders shall be executed in ns workmanlike a manner ns they onn be at any other bindery in the State. t ur specimens of this Kind or worn, he refers to the several county offices of Licking, Kninklin. Drluwnre, Marion, Crawford, Vu, ion, SeiifCn, Wnnil, Miarqi, Clark, Hocking, nnd perhaps others not recollected. Fur specimens of his work generally, he refers to Mr. Iinno N. Whiting, Bookseller nnd Slulioner, High Street. All orders for lurus or small jobs, exeoutcil with promptness, and in a style warranted satisfactory. Old books rebound on short notice. Most kinds of Blank Work constantly on hand) also a small assortment of School Books, Bibles, Testaments, Hymn Books, Stationery, Ha tic. Mural) 2?, IHJ4 ."Votice. rilllE Notes, Books, and Aoeounts of the JQ. Into Arm ol Doherty & l.cihy, as well as those of the undersigneJ imliviilnnlly, hare been placed in the hamls ot Storlin, U Uil-bcrt for collection. Those indebted, will sate costs by a prompt attention to the olaiiq against them. Messrs Starling b Gil bert are aumorixeQ to icing an aoc-uuuii bore. . wm. uun tn. t I, tor nim.oii and DOHERTY It LEIBY, March 18,11134. 39 t t CQO riCE. Tbs snbsortber having dispos-4l3 ad of his slock of Goods, requests those who hav Nates ant) Aooounts now tlue, to oall and settle) them without delay, as no furs thei indulgence will pe given. CHARLES COWLF.S. Coliimhui. Juneasth. IH33. S6 f Horses! ANTED, 50 gooil horses, for which ths subscribers will pay in any arlioles nut of their shop. WM. A. GILL ft CO, Jau. 3.I8J4 81

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AND COLUMBUS GAZETTE. Two Dollars fifty Cents in Advance Or, Three Dollars at the end of the year TERMS IVew Series.. ..IVo. 40, Vol. III. COLUMBUS, SATURDAY JflJiRCU 29, 1834. Whole Number, 1334. JOURNAL & OAZKTTE. From the New York Courlqr and Enquirer. - No. XLI. Washington, D. C, M.trch 8tli, 1834. On Tuesday the Committeo on Ways and Means made their report on ths subject of the Bank. Mr Polk, their Chairman, moved to postpone their consideration, until Wednesday next. The friends of the flank wished it referred to a Committee o( the Whole, which is the usual course. This was overruled. And why was it overruled? I will answer the question. Because, it is the intention of a drilltd corpt to cut short the debate. If the subject is referred to a Committeo of thn Whole, the previous question cannot be demanded in that committee, and the debute on the report must, therefore, be continued, until it shall be fully examined, in all its bearings. The friends of the report shrink from this discussion. They are unwilling that the arguments for and against it, should be sent forth to the peoplo. They wish to shelter themselves under "a gag law." Hut there is another reason. Amendments will be offered to the report of the majority. These amendments, it is apprehended, certain members will hesitate about voting against: and it is doubtful whether an "organization, according to the New York school," would be found sufficiently powerful to hold them in-"party shackles, so completely, as to obtain their votes against some of them. What, then, is to 1)0 done? There is no means loft, by which .these votes can bo secured to the party, tut one, and that is, to avoid the vote on the proposed amendments, llow is this to be accompliaheo? It is to be accomplished by ordering the previous question. Because, if that is ordered, it stops all debate, prevents any amendments being voted for, and presents to the Houso the simple question Shall the report bo adopted? Such, then, is the plan by which it is contemplated to carry Mr Polk's report through the House. Will it succeed? 1 consider that doubtful, It will be attempted. But there are some members, opposed to the Bank, who will refuse to sustain a Proposition, having for its object the sup pression of a free and full investigation of a subject, so vitally altecting the best interests of every citizen. But, why is it that the friends f the administration fear discussion? Why is it, that they struggle by night and by day, to apply h'"gag law," to their opponents? Is ihcro a member of this great community, so ignorant as not to understand the obieci? Does not every thinking man perceive, that it is the fear of exposure!1 Why not let the arguments, on Dotn sides, in tbeir greatest extent, be presented to the nation? Dare thoy not rely upon the soundness of the reasons which they assign for persisting in a remorseless and unrelenting warfare against tho prosperity of the country? Is it not evident that they wish, with an unhallowed hand and in the silence of despotism, to sacrifice a confiding, and unoffending people? Will that people continue to support those who have ignorantly, or wickedly, Diigwou tne fairest prospects that ever shone upon our land? Another effort will probably be made, to have the subject referred to a Committee of the Whole. You will have seen, by a reference to the proceedings ot the Senate, that various resolutions have boon laid on the la ble, calling upon tho Post Master General for information respecting his department. Mr Grundy, who is a member of tho Post Office committeo. frequently, with great apparent candor, calls to the attention of the senate, some peccaumo in tne aepari-mont, for the purpose of diverting their attention from matters of greater importance But as the game is understood, the labor is lost. A thorough investigation will be had. before the session terminates. Not withstanding all that has been said, the Post Office difficulties are not diminished. A check of theirs, for ten tlioutnnd dollars, on one of the doposit Banks, in your city, was returned here, a few days sinco, for non-payment, The President, last week, informed a friend that after the adjournment of Con gress, he proposod to tako a trip to the South, and put matters right in that quar ter. Ha contemolates. it is said, visiting Virginia and South Carolina. I do not nretend to the cilt of prophesy, and yet I will venture to predict, he does not make the journey. I should have thought that his Katttrn (our. last summer, for the pur- poso of putting "ronMers right," would have cured him ot any disposition to perurin similar tour, for a similar purpose. Tub Spy in Washimoton, XLII. Wasiiixutok.D. C. March 12, 1S.U In my lottor of tho Will lilt. I staled, that When the rejection of the Hank Directors, by the Senate, was announced to the Pro aident. "he became infuriated, and threat ened to send that body a message." I recur to it now, because tho remark, at tne nine, scorned to pass unheeded as tho idle wind The menace was considered so improbable and so ridiculous, tnal a low only ociiovcu it had ever been mado. That menace has boon carried into effect. Yesterday, the President transmitted to the senate, a written message, accompanied bv a renomination of tho United Statoa' Bank Directors, that wero rejocted about two weeks since. The message gave rise to some warm and animated speeches. 1 have raaann to believe, that a decided ma jority of the Senate feol that this act of the Executive is new evidonco of a fixed determination, in that department, to grasp at all powor. In its style and manner, it is hirrhly indecorous towards tho Senate, as a co-ordinato branch of the government. It scarcely pretends to treat them with cour tesy or respect. It entors into an elabor ate defence of the right of the Prosidont to call upon the government Directors, for such information, as to the transactions of the Dank, as he may think proper to require. It contends that it is the duty of these Directors to furnish such inhumation, when demanded by the Executive. And tln avers, that the individual who nm renom- inatod have boon wrongfully rejected, and requires their confirmation, under the alar- miiis- penalty, that ho will not nominalo any othor persons for their station. I threatens an appeal to the people. In short the whole document is a miserable election peering hand bill, mado up of slirods and ' patches, now vuuipod, which have bcu published and republished a dozen times in the hireling presses of power. This is another attempt to overawe the Senate. It will be met, however, you may rest assured, in a firm and dignified manner, by that honorable body. . The message, with the nominations, were laid on the tabic, to bo token up at a leisure hour. What course will be pursued is not yet known, as the Senate was thinly attended, when the subject was before them, and they havo not since met on Executive business. One thin? is certain they will be again rejected, and by the same majority, if not larger, it is probable that the senate, in asserting their right of reject ion, will not only express their opinion of the conduct of the President, in thus uncnurteously assailing them, and attomptingto wrest from them their constitutional powers, but that they will ulso allude, in strong terms, to the fligront violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution, in withholding the nomination, for months, after the Senate was in session, of perrons discharging the duties of important offices, such as the Secretary of (ho Treasury. I will now recall to your notice another circumstance, alluded to in a former letter. On the fJlh of February I sny "What would you think, if I was to inform you, that tho Kitchen Cabinet have a scheme for shortening the session! You will guess whero it originated, when I state tho project. By the Constitution the President may prornguo Congress, when the two Houses connot agree on the day of adjourn ment. 1 hey will get tho House to fix a day for adjournment; and if the Senate isagrees, Gen. Jackson will excrciso his ingly prerogative of prorogation. Such is the project. The tools of power may deny this statement, but it is true." A few days since the President informed one of iiis lloston friends that he intended to prorogue Congress until February, as he iheil to visit too Hermitage, and mnke a mr South. In tho Semite, yesterday, .Mr Webster, evidently alluding to this Exe cutive plan for adjournment, said, "Nor will we put it in the power ot others to cause us to vacate our seats." And to day, Mr John O.. Adams, in debate, mentioned the subject of prorogation, as "whispers both in and out of the Houso." These references to former letters are made for the purpose of remarking, that I never give such statements, or even hints, without the most substantial reasons for so doing: I do not trouble you with tho idlo gossip of the day. In announcing the death ot Governor llreitlutt of Kentucky, who was a decided friend of tho administration, and an estima-bio man, you havo omitted to notice the fact, that Lieutenant Governor Morohead is a National Republican, and now becomes Governor of the Stato, for the remainder of is term. lie was elected for four years, in the month of September, 1832. The Executive department of this State is, therefore, now in the hands of the opposition to the advocates of usurped power. The Committeo on I'.lections, to whom was referred the case of Mr Letcher and Mr Moore, have not yet reported. There seems to bo an unpardonable degree of procrastination. Threo months have elapsed, and no roport has been presented. This subjoct will produce a most vehement end utter debate. 1 he lnends ol Air itioore peak with entire confidence that the com mittee will report in his favor. Connec ted with this confidont mode of expression, there are some circumstances which have produced inquiry and examination. Let it be borne in mind that the committee are acting; under tho solemnity of an oath; and yet it is said, that a certain gentleman, who. at present, shall be nameless, but who is bettor known in your State, than in Ken; tucky, has msde some strong expressions on tho pending quostion, inuicauvo oi a disposition to prejudge the case. These expressions, if it shall bo found necessary, will be established betore the House, wnen the report shall be presented. Whatever course it mav take in tne com mitloo, I do not believe that it can be made, in tho House, a party question, inucou, I vet hope, that the committeo will be go verned by other consideration, auu mat they will make a manly and Honorable report. But, if it should be otherwise, tho debate will bo of a character (he most acrimonious, and probably tho most personal, that has occurred during the session. On that Question I think I shall behold, with out disgust, "the arrogant and magnificent air with which many southern politicians will claim an exemption from the shackles of party;" and with a noble bearing, indig nantly spurn tne proparoa organization oc cording to the New York School. THR SI'Y IX WASIIIXUTON. No. XLIII. Washinotow. D. C. March I I. 1831. So much time in the Senato is consumed ami vorv nroncrlv consumed, in tho present ation of memorials from tho people, on the subiect of the difficulties of tho country, that . . I . . ...Ml I it is Uillicuit to say wnai business win uo transacted in that body, on any given day. Mr Webster gave notice that lie wouiu.on Monday, as Chairman of the Financo committeo, present a bill for the renewal of tho charter of tho United States' Bank. Tho pressure of othor business may, and I think will, prevent its being introduced belbro Tuesday or Wednesday. It is said, that Mr Webster's plan is to renew tho chartor of the prosont Bank, for six years from .March, 1830. That tho stockholders pay such sum for the ronowal as may be deemed right and reasonable. mat tne uaiix collect ana uisuursu u nublic revenue as heretofore. That the government rosorvo the right, aftor March 119. to incorporate a now Dank, to go into operation at such time as Congoss may de signate; and that from and allur lo.JU, the present Honk shall not be allowed to issue, or circnlato any paper whatsoever, of a less denomination than twenty dollars. 1 hese, understand, are the principal teatures ot the bill, II will, probably, undergo modin cations and amendments in the Senate. I wish I could say, that 1 entertain hopes of its success in tho House, in any form; but An not. Early in the session, I expressed an opin ion, notwithstanding all the rumors to the contrary, that -Air nievcnson wouiu not ao dicatotho apeakor s cimruunug mo win tcr. Well, "tho winter is over uud cone,' and Mr Hlovonsnn is yet here, and likoly to remain hero lor soino months. It is evident however, that ho docs not calculat) ogai to bo a candidate for that station; and it probable that he expects, ultimately, to To ceive tho appointment so lung suspended.' As evidence that he does not look for votes, in the House, I could mention several incidents. Two will suffice. Some days ago, one pf his political friends (Mr Hannegau of Indiana,) offered an a-mendment to a question pending. The Speaker, not understanding the precise bearing of the amendment, or the precise place it was to be inserted, returned it, with the remark, that "it was neither sense nor grammar." On another recent occasion, he treated Mr Bell of Tennessee, in such a manner as to excite his ire, in a violent degree. Mr Bell felt the injury very sensibly; but, it is said, the Speaker, subsequently, in a private conversation, explained the matter. I refer to these, among other incidents, which occur almost daily on the floor of the House, as evidence that Mr Stevenson does not expect to remain in Congress. He either expects an appointment, or his district presents a forbidding aspect. Perhaps both. The Spy in Washington. From (lie New Vork American. TO THE PF.orLE OF THE DNITEP STATES. Letter 6. Fellow Citizens: In my last letter, I reached the period in my narrative, when the President's agent returned from his mission to the State Hanks, and when his report was placed in tho President's hands. I might, if at all needful to my defence, here notice various incidents, that occurred between the ')d of July, and the 9th of oepiemoor. there was but ono, howevor, which I feel myself at liberty to notice at present, and that liberty I tnko, inconsequence of the publication of an insidious article in the olliciol papor of the'7th of February last, founded upon a passage in my letter to Governor Tazewell. In that letter I mentioned my previous nwillingness to civo a full exposition of the incidents of my brief official career; but added that I would so far dopart from the rule of silence, as to state tho true nature of the service which I had been required to perforin, especially as tho official reasons given for its execution did not afford such an explanation. That the true nature of the service was not to substitute one fiscal agent for another, but to pervert a power, reserved by law for tho public protection, into a weapon to punish the legitimate fiscal agent, in such a time, and in such a manner as to evade legislative and judicial action. Hie official paper of the 7th ult., per- ceivmg the position in which the President was thus placed, rolative to the other two co-ordinato branches of tho government, put loan a paper to mislead tho public mind, and to exctiso the President for not having awaited tho action of Congress. I propuso in tho present letter to examine this publication. My explanation to Governor Tazewell s described in tho official publication refer red to, as "Mr Duano's second thoughts," by which it is meant, I presumo, that I had not belbro thought of what I hadthen-stated. But it is barely necessary to read my letter to the President of the 10th of July, in order to perceive, that I then gave to him the very "thoughts," which in January following I very briefly expressed to Gov. I ozeweil. It is in the next place said, that my ex planation to Governor Tazewell is a "revelation;" and this is correct, if tho assertion means that it is the first public exposition of what had not been before stated. In December last, 1 declined to reveal somo incidents, which I havo now men tioncd; and I now forbear to state par ticulars which I may hereafter refer to; but my correspondence with the President snows that 1 might have long sinro disclosed what is now related. I declined, however, until comnollod to do so in self delence. It is further said, that I have added e now reason, for refusing to remove the do- posits, to those given in my letter to the President, of the iiut of September last; but it will appear, on an examination of that letter, that this is a fallacy, It is true, I did not say in my letter to tho President, "Sir You require mo to remove the doposits in order to forestall tho action of Congress;" the oocasion did not call for that modo of expression, and courtesy for- bado it. lint 1 stated the Tact in a different way; I refused to remove the deposits, bo- cause Congress and the Judiciary ought to be hrst resorted to, and both were shunned. 1 lie official paper then insinuates, that my explanation to Governor Tazewell was intended to operate on tho pride of power in Congress. That it ought so to operate is true, but that it was designed fur that end is unfounded. My object in showing what was tho trno nature of tho sorvice required of mo was, to prove that I could not cxeculo it without detriment to the public, and reproach to myself, and that my course was not unworthy of the approbation of tho citizens of Norfolk. 'We have understood," says the official paper, "Ih it Mr Duane was willing to fix a day alter tho mooting ot Uongress, on which ho would remove the deposits, in case Congress did not act upon the subject. And wo know that some of thoso in lavor of the removal, and among others the agent employed in making preparation for tho transler, wero persuaded that Mr Duane was sincere and honest in making this proposition, and entered into his views; but tho President saw that it was utterly inconsistent with tho principles which Mr Duane had previously laid down in writing as those which would direct his conduct, aim lie consiuoreu tne proposition as a mere finosso for the benotit of the Bank. and troatod it accordingly." 1 shall not here stop to comment upon the President's secret sentiments respect ing me, which scorn to have been so well known to "the agent" and "others," wri ters for his official paper, but will show what was my proposition When it was known early in September that I persisted in my relusal to remove the deposits, and even hesitatod whether my duty to the country did not forbid surrender of tho post in my care; some of the members ol the Cabinet appeared to doairo that a middle course might bo pur sued. I was asked whether 1 would fix upon a tiny, on which 1 would remove the doposits, alter tho mooting of Uungress, in cose Hint body Bhnuld not acton tho sub ject. Whether this inquiry was or was not made with a view to an explanation with tho President, I do not knowt but when I was rcquotted tostatp my senti ments in writing, I did so in a letter. dated September 8th, of which the follow ing is an extract: "My conviction has been and is, that no cauie for a change of the depository does exiit, such as warrants the exercise of the power conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury; that, unlit adequate came to change ihalt arise, it will be his duly to deposit as at present, unless Congress Bhall otherwise direct. So that I can give no assurance but these; I will change the depository as soon as Congress shall direct me to do so, or as soon as such cause shall ariso as will, in my judgment, justify the act; but, if Congress shall not sanction the removal of the deposits (that is, do so previous to removal) I am not at liberty to say, that I will act at a given lime; tor I do not know that at that time there will be any more reasons than there is now for a change. 1 Ins is the result of reflection. I will respectfully and without bias listen to what may be said hereafter; but I have noiex-pcctiition of varying in the least from my present position. I am willing and ready, and anxious to go home, as soon as the f resident shall say such is Ins prcteronco, rather than do what I should ever after re gret and condemn." llius it appears, 1 rclusod to fix a day, consented to remove the deposits in case Congress dosired it, and slated my readi ness to retire ss soon as the 1'rcsidont should even express his preference for that course. Hero 1 might rest my defence, but consider it a duty to proceed. In my letter of the 10th of July, I said, that, to justify my own act in removing the deposits, I must rely on my own reasons, and not on those of others; obviously alluding to the offer made to mo by the President of his reasons, in case I should not consider my own sufficient. The official paper, however, says, 1 rnluscd to act even upon reasons "legislative," or "executive." l Ins is not only contradicted by tho pro position above quoted, but by the whole course of my written and oral discussion with the i'rcsident; it is also controverted by what I stated to the legal adviser of the President, my sucoessor in office, at an interview had with him by the desire of the President himself, And to show more precisely the nature of my srgumenl, I quote the following passage from a paper drawn up on the 10th of July, for the pur pose ot meeting the Presidents statements:"You (the President) aro of opinion there is a radical error in my view of that part of tho subject discussed, which relates to a reference of the question of the deposits to the next Longrcas. In order to demon strate my supposed error, you ask, whether the deposits can ba removed, except by tne Secretary of the Treosuryl To which there can bo no other reply than, that the Secretary alone can remove them. You, then, however, inquire whether Congress can rnako any provision for a deposit ot the public money before its removal! To which you reply it cannot, and that a removal, therefore, must bo the first step. In this, howevor, I cannot concur; on the contrary, 1 am satisfied that Congress may control the whole matter. Your conclusions are, that the existing grounds for removing the deposits are sutliciont, and that, so far, Congress have nothing to do with tho question; that it would bo throwing on them a responsibility not belonging to them, but to another branch of the Government; that when a change shall be mado, it will be timo onoiiLrh to submit it to the revision of Congress; but that until the change be mado they cannot act. But, sir, I cannot concur in this view of tho subject; tho positions, I humbly conceive, are untena ble. The Bank oharter reserves to Con gross the right to decide after removal, whether the removal was proper or not. So that I respecllully contend that Con gress havo a right to decide whether a re moval should or should not be mado at a future day, for they are to judge of the reasons. Nor do I admit that tho respon sibility restB upon the Exoculive branch of the Government; on thn contrary, you grant, in your letter of the 2!)th of June, that the secretary ol the 1 reasury lias by law a discretion, which he may use indepen dent ly. Independently of whoml Surely of evory authority, but that of the law, and of Congress, to whom his conduct is to be submitted, 1 may, indeed, be in error; but it would appear to ino to be at least singular, that tho Secretary of the Treasury should be clothed with a power which his superiors could not exercise, guide, or control without his previous ac tion; thai II tlicy should think tho public funds in danger, they could not protect tho i', if ho thought otherwise. According to my impressions, tho power of Congress must bo wholly unsuited to its objects, it it m-iy not bo exercised to instruct its agont to du, or how to do, or not to do, tho act or winch, it dono, he is obligod to give them his reasons. So that in tho absence of all necessity, I desire to submit tho question of tho removal of tho deposits, at lint to thoso who are to decide upon it at Intl. Whether 1 was correct or not, those wero tho positions which I maintained in discussion with the President, and the then Attorney General, as they must both re-mcnibor. So that it is wholly fallacious toprelond, either that I declined to be governed by the will of Congress, or that the Prosidont had tho least inclination to await their action. On tho contrary, if the official paper is to be credited, the Pro sidont determined to break down the Bank ore he had left Tennessee, and of courso long boloro any ol these occurrences took olaco, upon which he rested the propriety of removing the deposits. And I will here remark, that this hostility could not havo been founded on constitutional scruplos fur, when 1 introduced into the instruotions for his agent, a declaration thai the President was opposed to any National Bank, he truck this out, and substituted a declara tion, that he was only opposed to an insti tution organized upon the principles of the existing U ink, a declaration meaning any thing or nothing. Notwithstanding the facts which I have stated in thn letter, the official paper do dares, that the President refused to listen to any application lor dolay, because he considered my effort "a more linesso," "a stratagem," "lor the beneht ot the Hank' of the United Stalos. I ask you, fellow citizens, to mark this and comparo it with prior declarations of the samo papor. Behold tho character given of your Chief Magistralo by his official organl Some time ago, it assortod that the President had been uniformly kind to me; and 1 admit that his professions were occasionally very ardent, so much so thai I thought them sincere; I also admit, that he offered the mission to llussin. But observe what his official paper now confesses. It declares that the President was secretly defaming me, at the time he was publicly professing the utmost friendship to myself. He was assailing the reputation of a member of his own Cabinet, although he had not a solitary fact to give color even for suspicion. I Ins charge ot duplicity is not made by mo. It is the official paper which places tho President in this odious position. I do not determine upon the question, whether I am to believe what the President said to me, or what his official paper now assorts to tho public. W. J. DUANE. March 5, 1P31. From the National Intelligencer. OUGIIT TO BREAK." We are glad to see the gallant bearing of many of the Representatives of the people and of the Stales. We are glad that they do not quail before the power of the Executive, but boldly stand up and oppose that power when it is unjustly exerted either by words or actions. Now is the timo to resiet oppression. A year hence may bo too late. Tho reason for these sentiments will be seen upon reading the following eloquent remarks, made by .Mr. Clayton, of Delaware, in the Senate on Tuesday. We all remember that more than twenty gentlemen, of the first respectability in that city, which is the proudest ornament of Pennsylvania, alter bearing to Congress the memorial cf in ire than ten thousand of its citizens, praying thai the public deposits might be restored to the United States, waited on the President, for the purpose oi explaining me grievances ot their constituents; and that they have published to the world the result of their interview, in a detailed report made to the freemen of that city on the ;id inst. They state in that report, sir, that, "at their interview with the President, he admitted that con siderable distress had followed the action of the Government, in relation to the deposits. He had never doubted that Broken and Stock Speculator), and ALL wuo were 001110 BUSINESS UPON BORROWED CAPITAL, would suffer severely under the effects of the measure; snd that all such people OUGHT TO BREAK!" Henceforth, sir, let all those who, on this fl or or elsewhere, have doniod the existence of any pressure on the country, or who, confessing its existence, have assigned the wrong cause for it, to proteel the miserable purposes of party, learn, that they have mistaken thoireue; that the object of their idolatry himself disclaims their defence, denounces their sub terfuge, boldly avows that he foresaw all the consequences of this act, and that the very object of it was, that "all who were doing business upon borrowed capital" should be tuliioi). They "ounht to broU," says ne. lie never doubted that they would suffer snd suffer severely. He felt no sympa thy lor any out those, who, rolling in wealth, are tho "cankers of a oalm world and a long J IT i . peace, uoing notning; or mose wno, placed by tortune soove the disasters ol the times, aro doing buisness on their own capital. Mr, in my opinion, a more aristocratic sentiment never disgraced any branch of this liovornmont. Who are all those who are doing business on a borrowed capital? I'he Executive denunciation includes three- fourths of all the laboring men in tho nation; the mechanics, the tenantry, the manufacturers, and all but the office-holders, and that portion of society wich, if there be such a thing as an aristocracy of wealth in this country, csn be classed most properly under that designation. As ono of those who, like most of my associates, began life on a borrowed capital, and who are nqt now, and never will be, ashamed to acknowledge it, 1 avail myself of this, tho earliest possi ble opportunity which has otterod since I read this report, to express in mv place, and in the face of tho whole country, my utter abhorrence of the sentiment which the President has so unblushingly avowed. The Chief Magistrate has ventured to clsss the whole mass of the real workingmen of the nation with tho stock-jobbers ot the times, snd to express his satisfaction at the distresses he has caused them. Who is that membor of this body that shall dare to stand forth and detend this sentiment no man here doubts that it is truly reported. If thero be any such as will defend this sen timont, or deny that it was uttered, lot us hear him. It is lime tho people understood tho true issue they aro about to try. It is time, sir, that an opportunity should ba fairly given to the poor and tho middle classes of men, in this nation, to prove tq the world whether they lack gall to mike oppression bitter! Whether thoy merit the taunts of an oppressor, who has dared to loll them they ought to break! If not issue shall be fairly understood, I havo no foars for the result of the trial which such jurors shall decide. From the Nnilunnl G.-ixeite. UNITED STA TVS' BANK. Let impartial and close attention be given to the lollowing official document. It re futes volumes of party-declamation, and will serve to dissipate party projudice. The country may ba surprised, after all that we have beard of the ruinous curtailments of the Uink, to learn how small comparatively has been the roduction how enormous the Avnirireralinns of malice! Bank of the United Slate, March 5th, 1834. At a meeting of the Hoard of Directors held this day, Mr Eyre, from tho Commitioe on the Oliices, presented the lollowing report, which was read: KEI'OR T. The Committee, on the OrTi ces having now ascertained, by an experience of several months, the progress of the reductions in the business of the Bank ordered by the Board on the 8lh of October last, avail themselves of the monthly returns of the Bank and all itt offices, made up for trie month of March, to present a statement of those reductions. The dosign of the Board in directing them was to protect the institution, and to provide the moans of paying the Deposits of l ho Government, so as to press with as little injury as possible on tho community. How fur that purpose nasDccn accomplish ed, will bo seen from tho following detail ml atateniont of tho amount of the loans. deposits, specie and circulation of the Uink, from the 1st of October, 1833, to the 1st of aiirch, leoi. 1833. nlieounti Donmtle Bllle Total Oct. 1, 42 226 275 42 17.867 ,'JH 51 60,094,202 93 Nov. 1, 41.062.813 94 16,147.790 44 57.210,604 38 U'C 1, 38,780,507 49 15,672 537 18 54.453,104 67 1831. ., Jan. 1, 38,009,069 46 16.302 392 24 54.9ll.46t 70 ren. 1, 37,544 ijl Si 17.298,720 Hi 54.84i.73 64 Mar. 1, 37,381,131 86 18,786,698 00 56,167,829 86 1833. Plllillr. Denorlu Prime D'lXMlH Tolnl Oct. 1, 9,868,435 53 8.008,062 78 17,877.298 36 Nov. 1, Dee. 1, 8,2.!2.311 18 7.285 041 88 15517,353 06 5,162,260 63 6,827,173 10 1 1,989 433 73 1834. Jan. 1, 4,230.509 63 3.666 .hill 72 2,604.233 62 6,734 866 06 10.965.375 69 6,71531260 9.781.87434 7,343,129 92 9,947 363 52 Pet). 1, Mnr. 1, 1833. Specie 1 0,00:1,44 1 51 Circulation I9.ia8,i8fj nr 18 518,0410 57 18 650,912 90 Oct. I, Nov, 1, 10 342,160 4G Dec, 1, 9,S18,5'.9 25 1834. Js n. 1 , 1 0,031 ,237 72 1 9,508 379 90 Feb. 1, 10,523 385 69 19,200,472 90 Mor. 1, 10,385,439 15 18,5211,189 00 From this statement it will be perceived that from the 1st of October to the 1st of March, the total reduction in the line of local discounts wss 4,845,143 56 While thore has been an in-' crease in tho Domestic Bills of 918.770 49 Making the total reduction of loans 392G 373 07 During the some period the reduction of the Public Depos its was 7,201,201 90 And of the Private Deposits, 005,732 86 Making a total reduction of deposits of 7.929.934 82 During the same time, the specie of the Dank has dimin ished 278.002 3G Ann ine circulation ot tho Bank, 005 009 57 The comparison of the two periods will be more obvious from the following tabu lar statement: 1833. Loans Deposits Oct. 1, 00,001,202 03 17.877.208 30 1334. Mar. 1, 50,167,829 86 0.947,363 54 7,929,934 82 Specie 10,G63,441 51 3,920,373 07 Circulation 19,128,189 57 1833. Oct 1, 1834. Mar. 1, 18,523,189 00 10,385,439 15 005,000 57 278,01? 3G Tho soneral result of the operations of the Uann during the last bye months bar been 1st. That the reduction of the loans has not been, by upwards of four millions of dollars, as great ao the reduction of the De posits: and 2d. That the withdrawal of nearly eight millions of dollars of those funds on which the Bank had based its accommodations to the community, has not yet been followed by a reduction of accommodation equal to ono halt tho amount ol lunus thus withdrawn.3d. That from ths 1st of January to the 1st of March, the increaso itt the line of domestic bills smounted to nearly two millions and a nail ol dollars. 4th. That during the samo poriod there has been an actual increase in the total loans of the Bank, of 1,250,368 dollars 16 cents. The Committee cannot renret the small- ncss of this reduction durine tho last five months, nor even the actual increaso of its loans sinco the 1st of January; because both have arisen from the strong desire of the U mi It to give evory rebel to the commumtv consistent with its own safely. IS it thev cannot forbear to express their deliberate conviction that these reductions are much less than are required for its security during the present unsettled state of the currencvi and that it has now become the duty of tho Dank, gently but steadily, to diminish the amount ot the claims upon it by continu ing to lessen Its ousiness. Whereupon, on motion of Mr Nowkirk. ina ioi owing resolution was unanimously adopted: lieiolvcd. That as much misapprehension appears to exist throughout the country in regard to the reduction ol the loans ot the Bank since the removal of the Government Deposits, the loregoing Report be publish ed for general information. bxtract Irom tho minutes, S. JAUDON, CrwrtiVr. Forwarding and Commission Business, at Portsmouth, Ohio. f BV1E Subscriber would respectfully inform S. his friomli itnil the pnhlio generally, that he tuts eitnbliihod huusell lit the above place, fur the purpose of Irnnsscting the roRWAHDINO it .11) COMMISSION BUSINESS. Hnving hint several voiirs experience in a Homo doing nil I'Veunve business, he flutters liiinst'll Unit Its is oumputent to too biiuueif, and intending to give it his whole Hlti nlion, cinu.'t fitil of givins rin rat sulisfuotioil. Piirtioulnr Mtentuin will he given to nc-ceivikq nnd rortw aiipinq proper!), and no iinneceisury delay will be perinitlcil. He is Ant for tho 'Ohio, Tiiov mid K.niE, Line' sit the Ohio Canal, ami the 'Tuuy ami Erik1 nnd 'Mkhciia.mts' Link, on the New York Canals. Those being itaily Linei, will enable him to transport property with dispatoh and nt ipccilic prices. lis nlso has the oantrol of a number of Omul Boats, that he can direct to any desi red plnoo, to reoeive and delivpr freight. Liberal advances niado on property consigned to him for sale. - CJ,J.I.KKT. Feb. tJJ IUJ4 -10 tf lUfrrenccs can ba made to the following persons : Hours llarr Uampticii, . .... I). Adams ti Co., 'l"', Rogers, Murlin lit o. Virclewle Sherwood 4f Gregory, Coumiu B. Comitock it Co., J '"' Kaufman, & Foster, Lanettttr George Baker It Co., AVinsrk A. Buckingham & Co., Putnam u. u. wiison, tqruntui G. P. Griffith ft Co., 7Voy 8. Thonipinn Si Co., ) Towniend, Coit & Co., Huffalo Darker k Hold, Hidings, Buldwin, Tense, At Co. Cere- land O. A. M. D.im uin, PorltmouTi J .Moh l.awrenao& Co. ) M'ClellanAt Yorke, Cincinnd' K. J. Langhoro, Naynitlt Stoves: Stoves! Stoves!? rBlHE subscribers would reipectfully in-JL form their friends and the publio, (hat they have now on hand and are conitnnlly receiving Stoves of every description, suitable for this market. Among which nre, 7 and 10 Piute, of five different sizes franklin's, with and without doors, of different sizes and pntterni -Box and Sheet Iron Stoves likewise, COO KIN G ST 0ES, of a variety of patterns and of tho latest improvements, which are warranted equal to any to be found in the United Slates. They till continue to manufacture every description of Copper, Tin, &. Sheet Iron ' WARES. Their stock being large and prices much res duced, they feel a confidence inlaying they will oorcpete with any establishment west of the mountains. Country produce in ge? ncrnl tuken in exchange. W. A. GILL t Co, Columbus, Nov. 4, 1(133. 10 6m 100 Dollars Steward! n ANA WAY from Iheiubicriber, in Kanawha county, Vu., about the first of August ldit,a negro boy eighteen years old; mall of his Bget calls himself JOHN TE-CUMSEII. Said boy is a mulatto; has a scar over one eye; of a thin visage; a dish nose; and has a considerable knot on one ofhisunkles, on the inside; and in oonver. ittion is given to bonsting, and is quite pecul-inr in his phraseology. Sinoe his escape he has been in Marietta, Ohio, where he was taken, but again made his escape, lie has sines been heard of between Guynndotte and Chtllioothe; and is probably making for the Lakes. The above reward will be given to any person who mny secure the said runaway in any jail in Ohio, so that I get him again. ROBERT BLAINE, Feb. 1st 1834 3 1 3m The Editors of the Scioto Gniette and Gal-lipolis Journal, will publish the above two months, and charge the same to the Kanawha Banner. Flour, 1QQ BBLSbesl family FLOUR, for BURR k GREGORY. Jan. !9 28 TARIFF, rgl 1119 Spendid Horse, the joint properly o I, Wm. R. Johnion, of Va., A. Trimble, and I). M' Arthur, of Ohio, has been removed to Hillsborough, Highland county; whore he will stand the approaching season, in ears of his former keeper, GEO. ADAMS. Ilill.horoi.jh, March 3, 18.14 37 Fresh Uardcu Seeds, aROM S. C. Farkhunt's establishment, Cincinnati, and from the Shakers1 Union Village, Ohio. Also, a fine assortment of t lower and Medical Unrilcn bcedl. Reoeived and for sale by SUMNER CLARK. Maroh 19 39 4w For Rent. A Commodious, wall finished Dwelling Houso, onnsisting of twelve rooms, for rent. Posicssiun given 1st of Anril. It is one of the eight buildings on Town street, called Commercial Row. J. BUTTLES, March IT :i9 3w Notice. '1HE PARTNERSHIP of Wm. A. Platl, JL and H. 8. Sprague, under the name of WM, A. PLATT it Co. is this dnv dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to said firm, will make imvmcnt to Wm. A. Piatt, and all persons hnving claims against the oonoern will o II upon him for payment. An immediate settlement of all accounts is required. Wffl. A. I LdA T T H. S, SPRAGUE, March 19,11134. N. B. The business will ba continued as heretofore hy Wm. A. Platt. 39 3w Hook Rindery, rflHESTKR MATTOON, having purchas-J ed the interest of Thomas Johnson, in the Buok Bindery formerly carried on over his well known Book Store, nearly opposite the State House on High Street; hus removed to the building recently occupied by Luman Bnker on State Street, fytwo doors below the Market House) where ho is prepared to oarry on the buiiness iu all its branches. Having, while connected with Mr Johnson, had the binding of raott of ths blank books heretofore used iu the County Offices in this purt ol tho Stnle, he hopes that ho will continue to receive calls in that line, and he pledges himself that ail orders shall be executed in ns workmanlike a manner ns they onn be at any other bindery in the State. t ur specimens of this Kind or worn, he refers to the several county offices of Licking, Kninklin. Drluwnre, Marion, Crawford, Vu, ion, SeiifCn, Wnnil, Miarqi, Clark, Hocking, nnd perhaps others not recollected. Fur specimens of his work generally, he refers to Mr. Iinno N. Whiting, Bookseller nnd Slulioner, High Street. All orders for lurus or small jobs, exeoutcil with promptness, and in a style warranted satisfactory. Old books rebound on short notice. Most kinds of Blank Work constantly on hand) also a small assortment of School Books, Bibles, Testaments, Hymn Books, Stationery, Ha tic. Mural) 2?, IHJ4 ."Votice. rilllE Notes, Books, and Aoeounts of the JQ. Into Arm ol Doherty & l.cihy, as well as those of the undersigneJ imliviilnnlly, hare been placed in the hamls ot Storlin, U Uil-bcrt for collection. Those indebted, will sate costs by a prompt attention to the olaiiq against them. Messrs Starling b Gil bert are aumorixeQ to icing an aoc-uuuii bore. . wm. uun tn. t I, tor nim.oii and DOHERTY It LEIBY, March 18,11134. 39 t t CQO riCE. Tbs snbsortber having dispos-4l3 ad of his slock of Goods, requests those who hav Nates ant) Aooounts now tlue, to oall and settle) them without delay, as no furs thei indulgence will pe given. CHARLES COWLF.S. Coliimhui. Juneasth. IH33. S6 f Horses! ANTED, 50 gooil horses, for which ths subscribers will pay in any arlioles nut of their shop. WM. A. GILL ft CO, Jau. 3.I8J4 81